Antiquities are carriers of a nation's invisible history, culture, art, and science, possessing characteristics of national identify, non-renewable, rare, and infinite value. Herein, we use antiquities from royal family of the Shang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty as examples to describe their history, culture, and art background, highlighting that visual inspection, hand contact, and subjective experience of "traditional identification". We also describe the instrument technology for "scientific identification" which is mainly based on chemistry, material, and forensic science as well as scientific attitudes. We propose the construction of communication platform between traditional identification (art and history expert) and scientific identification (technology specialist), complementing each other to verify the identification results for effective dating, authentication, and qualification of antiquities. We hope to help readers' understanding of the antiquities identification and thus provoke citizens to appreciate, love, and conservative antiquities.
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